* [PATCH v1] doc: update release notes for 22.03
@ 2022-03-16 17:33 John McNamara
2022-03-17 8:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
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From: John McNamara @ 2022-03-16 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dev; +Cc: thomas, John McNamara
Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 22.03 release notes.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
---
Note: I haven't removed the boilerplate RST comments from
this file/patch in order to make it easier to merge
apply. If you want me to do that I can submit a v2.
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst | 108 +++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
index d231e3e8a4..27067dd5c0 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
@@ -57,45 +57,47 @@ New Features
* **Added ability to reuse hugepages in Linux.**
- It is possible to reuse files in hugetlbfs to speed up hugepage mapping,
+ It is now possible to reuse files in hugetlbfs to speed up hugepage mapping,
which may be useful for fast restart and large allocations.
The new mode is activated with ``--huge-unlink=never``
and has security implications, refer to the user and programmer guides.
* **Added functions to calculate UDP/TCP checksum in mbuf.**
- * Added the following functions to calculate UDP/TCP checksum of packets
- which can be over multi-segments:
- - ``rte_ipv4_udptcp_cksum_mbuf()``
- - ``rte_ipv4_udptcp_cksum_mbuf_verify()``
- - ``rte_ipv6_udptcp_cksum_mbuf()``
- - ``rte_ipv6_udptcp_cksum_mbuf_verify()``
+ Added the following functions to calculate UDP/TCP checksum of packets
+ which can be over multi-segments:
-* **Added functions to configure flow engine.**
+ - ``rte_ipv4_udptcp_cksum_mbuf()``
+ - ``rte_ipv4_udptcp_cksum_mbuf_verify()``
+ - ``rte_ipv6_udptcp_cksum_mbuf()``
+ - ``rte_ipv6_udptcp_cksum_mbuf_verify()``
- * Added ``rte_flow_configure`` API to configure flow management
- engine, allowing to pre-allocate some resources for better performance.
- Added ``rte_flow_info_get`` API to retrieve available resources.
+* **Added functions to configure the flow engine.**
- * Added ``rte_flow_template_table_create`` API to group flow rules
- with the same flow attributes and common matching patterns and actions
- defined by ``rte_flow_pattern_template_create`` and
- ``rte_flow_actions_template_create`` respectively.
- Corresponding functions to destroy these entities are:
- ``rte_flow_template_table_destroy``, ``rte_flow_pattern_template_destroy``
- and ``rte_flow_actions_template_destroy``.
+ Added the ``rte_flow_configure`` API to configure the flow management
+ engine, allowing preallocation of some resources for better performance.
+ Added ``rte_flow_info_get`` API to retrieve available resources.
-* **Added functions for asynchronous flow rules creation/destruction.**
+ Added ``rte_flow_template_table_create`` API to group flow rules
+ with the same flow attributes and common matching patterns and actions
+ defined by ``rte_flow_pattern_template_create`` and
+ ``rte_flow_actions_template_create`` respectively.
+ The corresponding functions to destroy these entities are:
+ ``rte_flow_template_table_destroy``, ``rte_flow_pattern_template_destroy``
+ and ``rte_flow_actions_template_destroy``.
- * Added ``rte_flow_async_create`` and ``rte_flow_async_destroy`` API
- to enqueue flow creaion/destruction operations asynchronously as well as
- ``rte_flow_pull`` to poll and retrieve results of these operations and
- ``rte_flow_push`` to push all the in-flight operations to the NIC.
+* **Added functions for asynchronous flow rules creation and destruction.**
- * Added asynchronous API for indirect actions management:
- ``rte_flow_async_action_handle_create``,
- ``rte_flow_async_action_handle_destroy`` and
- ``rte_flow_async_action_handle_update``.
+ Added the ``rte_flow_async_create`` and ``rte_flow_async_destroy`` APIs
+ to enqueue flow creation/destruction operations asynchronously as well as
+ ``rte_flow_pull`` to poll and retrieve results of these operations and
+ ``rte_flow_push`` to push all the in-flight operations to the NIC.
+
+ Added asynchronous APIs for indirect actions management:
+
+ - ``rte_flow_async_action_handle_create``
+ - ``rte_flow_async_action_handle_destroy``
+ - ``rte_flow_async_action_handle_update``
* **Added rte_flow support for matching GRE optional fields.**
@@ -104,35 +106,35 @@ New Features
* **Added new RSS offload types for L2TPv2 in RSS flow.**
- Added macro RTE_ETH_RSS_L2TPV2, now L2TPv2 session ID field can be used as
+ Added ``RTE_ETH_RSS_L2TPV2`` macro so that he L2TPv2 session ID field can be used as
input set for RSS.
-* **Added IP reassembly Ethernet offload API, to get and set config.**
+* **Added IP reassembly Ethernet offload APIs to get and set config.**
Added IP reassembly offload APIs which provide functions to query IP
reassembly capabilities, to set configuration and to get currently set
reassembly configuration.
-* **Added an API to enable queue based priority flow ctrl(PFC).**
+* **Added an API to enable queue based priority flow ctrl (PFC).**
- New APIs, ``rte_eth_dev_priority_flow_ctrl_queue_info_get()`` and
- ``rte_eth_dev_priority_flow_ctrl_queue_configure()``, was added.
+ Added new APIs, ``rte_eth_dev_priority_flow_ctrl_queue_info_get()`` and
+ ``rte_eth_dev_priority_flow_ctrl_queue_configure()`` for queue based
+ priority flow ctrl (PFC).
* **Added a private dump API, to dump private info from device.**
- Added the private dump API which provides querying private info from device.
- There exists many private properties in different PMD drivers.
- The information of these properties is important for debug.
- As the information is private, a dump function is introduced.
+ Added the private dump API which provides a facility for querying private info from a device.
+ There exists many private properties in different PMD drivers and
+ the information in these properties is useful for debugging.
-* **Updated AF_XDP PMD**
+* **Updated AF_XDP PMD.**
- * Added support for libxdp >=v1.2.2.
+ * Added support for libxdp >= v1.2.2.
* Re-enabled secondary process support. RX/TX is not supported.
* **Updated Amazon ENA PMD.**
- The new driver version (v2.6.0) introduced bug fixes and improvements, including:
+ The new driver version (v2.6.0) introduces bug fixes and improvements, including:
* Added new checksum related xstats: ``l3_csum_bad``, ``l4_csum_bad`` and
``l4_csum_good``.
@@ -159,14 +161,14 @@ New Features
* **Updated Marvell cnxk ethdev PMD.**
- * Added queue based priority flow control support for CN9K & CN10K.
+ * Added queue based priority flow control support for CN9K and CN10K.
* Added support for IP reassembly for inline inbound IPsec packets.
* Added support for packet marking in traffic manager.
* Added support for CNF95xx B0 variant SoC.
* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
- * Supported ConnectX-7 capability to schedule traffic sending on timestamp.
+ * Added support for ConnectX-7 capability to schedule traffic sending on timestamp.
* Added WQE based hardware steering support with ``rte_flow_async`` API.
* Added steering for external Rx queue created outside the PMD.
* Added GRE optional fields matching.
@@ -174,14 +176,16 @@ New Features
* **Updated Wangxun ngbe driver.**
* Added support for devices of custom PHY interfaces.
+
- M88E1512 PHY connects to RJ45
- M88E1512 PHY connects to RGMII combo
- YT8521S PHY connects to SFP
+
* Added LED OEM support.
* **Updated Wangxun txgbe driver.**
- * Added LED OEM support.
+ Added LED OEM support.
* **Added an API for private user data in asymmetric crypto session.**
@@ -210,27 +214,27 @@ New Features
* **Added support for Kunpeng930 DMA devices to HiSilicon DMA PMD.**
- * Kunpeng930 DMA devices are now enabled for HiSilicon DMA PMD.
+ Kunpeng930 DMA devices are now enabled for HiSilicon DMA PMD.
* **Added CNXK GPIO PMD.**
- Added a new rawdevice PMD which allows to manage userspace GPIOs and install
- custom GPIO interrupt handlers which bypass kernel. This is especially useful
- for applications, that besides providing standard dataplane functionality
- want to have fast and low latency access to GPIO pin state.
+ Added a new rawdevice PMD which allows managing userspace GPIOs and installing
+ custom GPIO interrupt handlers which bypass the kernel. This is especially useful
+ for applications that as well as providing standard dataplane functionality
+ also want to have fast and low latency access to GPIO pin state.
See the :doc:`../rawdevs/cnxk_gpio` rawdev guide for more details on this
driver.
-* **Updated testpmd.**
+* **Updated testpmd to support software UDP/TCP checksum over multiple segments.**
- * Called ``rte_ipv4/6_udptcp_cksum_mbuf()`` functions in testpmd csum mode
- to support software UDP/TCP checksum over multiple segments.
+ Updated ``rte_ipv4/6_udptcp_cksum_mbuf()`` functions in testpmd csum mode
+ to support software UDP/TCP checksum over multiple segments.
* **Added crypto producer mode in test-eventdev.**
- * Crypto producer mode helps to measure performance of OP_NEW and OP_FORWARD
- modes of event crypto adapter.
+ Crypto producer mode helps to measure performance of OP_NEW and OP_FORWARD
+ modes of event crypto adapter.
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